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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE STREAT, of the city and State of New York, have invented and made a certain new and useful Improvement in Oiled Fabrics; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, .'clezrr,' nnd exact description of the said invention, and of the features that distinguish thesuid fabric from those before produced; I v Oiled silk, for clothing, hat-linings, 8m, has heretofore been made by coating the some with a drying-oil that renders it water-proof, but it isiportially elastic, rind will yield and stretch to the desired shape, particul larly wheircut out diagonally to th e' lines of the threads. This fabric, howerenis expensive, on account of l the costliness of the silk. Efforts borev been'mude to produce a cotton fabric, for use in place of silk, in the l manufacture of oiled clothing. In this case, the fibres of cotton standing upfrom the'surfoce, prevent the oil l drying. with that smoothness and lustre necessary in the best quality of oiled fabrics. To remedy the before:

named difiicnlty, the cotton fabricsforming the foundation of the'oiled clothhnvebcen highly sized and colondered, to produce a. smooth. surface-forthe oil. This process; involves an objectionitble feature-in the fabric i itself, viz that the same is unyielding and non-elasti c,-ond hence it is not ndu-pted to many uses where a. small amount of elasticityis necesssry. for the goods, to accommodate the shape-of the iirticle to which said goods areoppliedf i I v f The object of my said invention is to produce an oiled fabrioas handsome in nfipearance as oiled silk, or nearly so, and at the same time employ a cotton base or foundation that nllows thcfgoods'toyield o certain amount, and accommodate the shape to which the oiled fabric is employed, as wenfas oiled silk.

I take a good quality of cotton fabric, of the desired strength,'ond properlybleecherhond I singc off all the projecting fibres, so as to leave the fabric in its ordinary pliant state, but rerysmooth;- and I thenapply the drying-oil to the some, in the same manner as to silk fabric heretofore employed.-

The fibres are to be singed off by any usual or known apparatus. I have made useof acylindcr, or section-of :tcylinder, stationary, and highly heated, over which the fabric is drawn rapidly, by mechanism, so that the sin'geing of the fibres is rcgu lar and uniform on one side, and then the fabric is run th'rough again, to singe thefibres off the other side.

My fabric, produced in the aforesaid manner, is a. new article of manufacture,- the some being an oiled fabric with a cotton or linen base, and equal, or nearly so, in both appearance and elasticity, to oiledsilk.

- What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v The oiled fabric specified, made in the manner set forth, as a new article of manufacture.

I In witness whereof, I hove hereunto set my sign'atur'e, this nineteenth dayof Qccember, 1867.

GEO. STREAT.

Witnesses: I

GnAs. H. SMITH, G210. T. Pmonunr. 

